The Chase (1966, Columbia, dir. Arthur Penn). I walked to the Varsity Theater in downtown Lawrence, KS from McCollum Hall on the KU campus the last night of my first semester there in graduate school, and it was the only movie I saw all that semester, I think. (I saw a lot more next year.) “Bubba Reeves has escaped” (from a prison up north). That rattles a small southern town as he returns. Robert Redford is Bubba, and Marlon Brando is the Sheriff, with Jane Fonda as Bubba’s wife. A real 60s film, Cinemascope. Oh, a marquee for this film shows up now in a Coca Cola movie ad. Weird.
Yet I was told by my roommate at the time that this was how small towns used to be.